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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Rose Gardener (Die Rosenzüchterin) is a 2005 novel, in German, by Charlotte Link. It was translated into English in 2014.It plays out in two narrative tracks. The bulk of the novel is set in 1999-2000 in Guernsey in The Channel Islands. Beatrice Shaye is a 70-year-old woman, a rose gardener, who has lived in Guernsey for almost all of her life. She lives there with Helene Feldmann, a German woman who is a little over ten years her senior. Beatrice worries about her son Alan, a lawyer in his early 40s with a terrible drinking problem. Part of Alan's drinking problem is rooted in his obsessive love for Maya, a temptress half his age.Beatrice's humdrum existence is changed when she rents a room to a German woman, Franca Palmer. Franca, who is escaping a bad marriage, forms a friendship with Beatrice. Franca wonders why Beatrice lives with Helene, a German national who is not a blood relation. The story that Beatrice tells Franca is the novel's second narrative track, which plays out in a series of flashbacks. It turns out that Beatrice and Helene have lived together ever since 1940, when Nazi Germany occupied the Channel Islands. Beatrice was separated from her parents by bad luck and left behind on Guernsey, and a German officer, Major Erich Feldmann, commandeered her family's house, then brought his wife Helene out from Germany to live there. Beatrice tells Franca that Erich killed himself just a few days before the Channel Islands were liberated in 1945. But it turns out, that might not be true....Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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Beautiful All Along: Franca. She is a dowdy, quivering Broken Bird at the start of the novel, but after she gains self-confidence after leaving her husband and moving to Guernsey, it shows in her appearance. She gets a tan and starts wearing more flattering dresses and realizes that she can turn men's heads. | |
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The Alcoholic: Beatrice's son Alan has a terrible drinking problem. When he's sober, he's charming and thoughtful and an excellent lawyer. But he needs liquor to get through every day, and when things get bad he has a tendency to on benders that will last for days. | |
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Bilingual Dialogue: When Helene first meets Beatrice's boyfriend Frederic, after she showed up at the apartment uninvited. Helene, who really really hates the idea that Beatrice might have anyone else in her life, spitefully speaks to Beatrice in German so Frederic can't understand. Beatrice refuses to play along and answers in English, resulting in a bilingual conversation. | |
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